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Grief, Grown Children
July 19, 2019
4 Minute Read

To My Dad Gone Too Soon: I Miss You

Dear Dad, Man, I miss you. It seems like just yesterday I was getting dressed up in my frilly dress to go on one of our infamous daddy-daughter…

Grown Children, Kids, Motherhood
July 15, 2019
8 Minute Read

She’s My Mom, and She Did Her Best

It was a typical Thursday morning, but the gloomy clouds and drizzling rain poetically accompanied a nagging sadness that I tried to ignore as I went…

Grief, Motherhood
July 10, 2019
4 Minute Read

Will I Forget My Mom as the Years Without Her Slip By?

I’m on year 11. Eleven years. I can’t even relay to you how 11 years feels impossible, yet so quick and so long all at once. Life without…

Kids, Marriage
July 7, 2019
5 Minute Read

Dear Husband, It’s All in Your Eyes

We were babysitting our youngest grandson, Adler, for an afternoon while our daughter Becca made some sales calls. Three-year-old Adler was napping…

Grief, Loss
July 3, 2019
3 Minute Read

I Didn’t Just Lose My Mom the Day She Died

I didn’t just lose her the day she died, I’ve lost her many times over the years. I lost her in aisle five at the grocery store all over…

Grown Children, Kids, Motherhood
June 30, 2019
3 Minute Read

Dear Dad, Watching You as a Grandpa is Pure Magic

That twinkle in your eye. It’s always been my favorite. It was the thing I looked to for approval, humor, and reassurance as a daddy’s little…

Grown Children, Journal, Living, Relationships
June 21, 2019
5 Minute Read

Goodbye to the House That Built Me

In the winter of 1985, while I was halfway done growing in my mom’s belly, my parents moved into a little brown 3 bedroom/1.5 bath that was…

Grown Children, Kids
June 16, 2019
3 Minute Read

A Dad is His Daughter’s Safe Place, Too

“Mothers are their children’s safe place.” I hear this all the time. I feel this way about my mom, and since I’ve become a mom, I know this…

Grown Children, Kids, Living
June 13, 2019
3 Minute Read

To the Grandparents Who Live Far Away, We Feel Your Love

Dear out-of-town grandparent, I see you in your house over there. Too far for me to see, but familiar enough for me to envision. I see you as you…

Grief, Grown Children
June 7, 2019
3 Minute Read

My Parents Are Aging and I Worry

I woke suddenly in the wee hours of the morning, unsure if it was the pounding thunder that had startled me awake or the pounding of my heart. I sat…

grown children

To My Dad Gone Too Soon: I Miss You

She’s My Mom, and She Did Her Best

Will I Forget My Mom as the Years Without Her Slip By?

Dear Husband, It’s All in Your Eyes

I Didn’t Just Lose My Mom the Day She Died

Dear Dad, Watching You as a Grandpa is Pure Magic

Goodbye to the House That Built Me

A Dad is His Daughter’s Safe Place, Too

To the Grandparents Who Live Far Away, We Feel Your Love

My Parents Are Aging and I Worry

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